Example sentences of "you 've [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.

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1 They whip across you before you 've even thought about it .
2 Well you 've just talked about
3 In a conflict situation , have you ever behaved badly towards anyone else ; intentionally or unintentionally heaping upon them the blame you attribute to any of the figures you 've just thought about and identified ?
4 Well what you 've got to do now is think about your own house and in the same way you 've just thought about it and say what is there about my house that would attract somebody to try and break into it .
5 You 've never worried about illegal , ’ she snapped
6 You 've never talked about your family . ’
7 You 've never talked about that before .
8 In fact — and this is going to blow your socks off if you 've never thought about it before — God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people ( including teachers ) .
9 " Do n't tell me you 've never thought about it .
10 All you 've ever cared about is being approved of , like a little girl at a party .
11 Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do .
12 If you 've ever worried about how to get a spider out of your bath … help could be at hand .
13 If you believed everything you 've ever read about desktop publishing it 's quite possible that you think anyone who can use a computer can turn out professional looking material with consummate ease .
14 And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room .
15 Underneath the screen up in the pie in the sky I mean that I mean I 've known that when you 've only got about that much where you should have that .
16 But it is still there : the soaring vague walls and giant secretive curtain washed with colours you 've only dreamt about , the colour of all the things you were never allowed to have as a child , suddenly real and there before you .
17 You 'll probably find that there are some bits that you 've almost forgotten about already , but other bits are still quite fresh in your mind .
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